Richard Pellatt

Richard was born about 1534. He is the son of William Pellett.

PELLATT, Richard (d.1587), of Charlton Court, Steyning, Suss.

Family and Education 1st s. of William Pellatt† educ. Corpus, Camb. 1548; G. Inn 1551. m. Mary, 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1558.

Offices Held Biography The Pellatts were an old Sussex family, paying tax at Steyning as early as 1296, and though they did not achieve county status until the time of Richard Pellatt’s son Benjamin, it may be assumed that Richard Pellatt was of sufficient standing to secure his own return to Parliament in the election of 1572, when, in any case, all three local magnates—Henry, Earl of Arundel and his sons-in-law the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Lumley—were in the Tower. In February 1581, on the marriage of his son Benjamin to Dorothy Lewknor, he enfeoffed his manors of Charlton and Ashurst for their benefit. He added to his Sussex property in 1584 by buying Bignor park, near Petworth, and (unless this is a namesake) in his later years he married an Essex heiress and moved to that county, dying, according to the inquisition post mortem, 21 Jan. 1587. There is a discrepancy in the dates of the contemporary documents, as administration of his estate, describing him as ‘late of Maldon’, Essex, is stated to have been granted to his widow, Mary, on 16 Jan. that year.

• Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 153; D. G. C. Elwes and C. J. Robinson, Castles, Mansions, Manors of W. Sussex, 32, 34; Suss. Arch. Colls. xxxviii. 101-22; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 229, 427, 430; CPR, 1555-7, pp. 227, 285; 1558-60, p. 447; Add. 5685, ff. 42, 91; C142/214/222; PCC admon. act bk. 1587, f. 1.

notes

from A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling and A M Rowland, 'Steyning: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1, Bramber Rape (Southern Part), ed. T P Hudson (London, 1980), pp. 226-231. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/pp226-231 [accessed 14 July 2016].

The manor of CHARLTON, sometimes called CHARLTON-ASHURST, representing the nonurban part of the original manor of Steyning together with land in Ashurst, had acquired a separate identity by 1440, when Sir John Cornwall held it. (fn. 22) Whether it was separate much earlier is uncertain; the manor of Steyning was still so called in 1405. (fn. 23) Charlton followed the descent of Steyning manor and borough until the Dissolution, (fn. 24) when it came to the Crown, being attached like Steyning to the honor of Petworth. (fn. 25) William Pellatt, to whose grandfather (fn. 26) and namesake Syon abbey leased Charlton manor in 1484 (fn. 27) and who himself held a lease first from the abbey (fn. 28) and later from the Crown, was granted the manor in fee in 1557. (fn. 29) He was succeeded c. 1558 (fn. 30) by his son Richard (d. 1587), whose son Benjamin (fn. 31) sold the manor to Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston in 1593. (fn. 32)

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